Hey Guys, so this is one of those projects that has made it's way to my bench....A SS TOS Antique viper.....See the link below for more info on how this all started but the quick story is that this was initiated by Jesse, taken 95 yards down field by Mark Bradley and the last 5 yards by me....
This is based off of the JM kit, also know as the old custom replicas kit, so while it is Studio Scale, it is not as large as my size corrected 15 1/2 inch TOS viper. Because it is based off of the JM kit it would be a great companion kit to the Icons, custom replicas, JMeyers, or even the monsters in motion kits that are out there...basically any kit that originates from that lineage.
Mark B really did a nice job on this, it does have it's idiosyncrasies and small imperfections due to the fact that it is based on the fore-mentioned kits that have lineage back to the studio models.
The only thing I really changed on this was to swap out the squished afterburners with afterburners that were grown by Mike Reis, which are cool because they are clean, round, and Mike was able to "shrink" the leo part down to match the model, if i had tried to replace the burners with a real kit part, the kit part would be about 10% too big.
This is the first test cast and is not glued up, just cobbled together. I hope to get this glued up and maybe even painted up shortly. I may be offering a very limited amount of these so PM me if you are interested in one.....good news is that they will be cheap by SS standards....if you want to know how cheap PM me...
PS, missing from the pic is the thingy that goes around the lower intakes...
thanks
mike
http://www.therpf.com/f10/next-thing-i-need-1949/
This is based off of the JM kit, also know as the old custom replicas kit, so while it is Studio Scale, it is not as large as my size corrected 15 1/2 inch TOS viper. Because it is based off of the JM kit it would be a great companion kit to the Icons, custom replicas, JMeyers, or even the monsters in motion kits that are out there...basically any kit that originates from that lineage.
Mark B really did a nice job on this, it does have it's idiosyncrasies and small imperfections due to the fact that it is based on the fore-mentioned kits that have lineage back to the studio models.
The only thing I really changed on this was to swap out the squished afterburners with afterburners that were grown by Mike Reis, which are cool because they are clean, round, and Mike was able to "shrink" the leo part down to match the model, if i had tried to replace the burners with a real kit part, the kit part would be about 10% too big.
This is the first test cast and is not glued up, just cobbled together. I hope to get this glued up and maybe even painted up shortly. I may be offering a very limited amount of these so PM me if you are interested in one.....good news is that they will be cheap by SS standards....if you want to know how cheap PM me...
PS, missing from the pic is the thingy that goes around the lower intakes...
thanks
mike
http://www.therpf.com/f10/next-thing-i-need-1949/
